What is a food chain? a food chain is simply a community of organisms, what they eat and what eats them.It connects the consumer with the producer. A food chain shows and explains how organisms
consumes energy and nutrients, it begins with plant life and ends with animal-life.
All organisms in the deep ocean population are linked through what they eat and what eats them. A food chain is basically a pathway between the producer and several types of consumers. In a typical marine food chain, dinoflagellates exchange energy from sunlight into food through photosynthesis and store it in their tissues. Copepods feed on dinoflagellates and incorporate this energy into their own tissues. The energy is transferred to sunfish when they feed on copepods, to small sharks that feed on sunfish, and to large sharks that feed on small sharks.(kids.britannica.com)
The feeding relations in an ecosystem consist of many food chains interconnected into a network called the “food web” but in this case because its deep ocean its called the “marine food chain”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HrIeZtIH6g www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HrIeZtIH6g
The MARINE food chain begins with phytoplankton, just as on earth we would begin with plants, phytoplankton are found close to the surface of the water there there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis to occur.
1.Phytoplankton are consumed by tiny floating animals such as, crabs, shrimps, worms, krill and copepads known as Zoo-plankton. Phytoplanktons are also identified as “microalgae”. They are in addition similar to terrestrial plants that contain chlorophyll and need the light of sun in order to survive. “Most phytoplankton are buoyant and float in the upper part of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates the water. Phytoplankton also requires inorganic nutrients such as nitrates, phosphates, and sulfur which they convert into proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.” (oceanservice.noaa.gov)
2. Zooplankton provide food for all tpyes of fish, big fishes eat smaller fishes and so on and the sharks, will consume the bigger fishes. Zooplanktons are divided into two group types. First there are those that spend their whole lives as small plankton and then there are those that float as plankton only in their young stages. Usually the second type will grow up into a variety of larger life forms. Forminiferans, radiolarians, andcopepods are only some of the permanent members of the zooplankton community. The first two are nearly comparable to the diatoms and flagellates of the phytoplankton population. Forminiferans (hole-bearers) are organisms that live within small shells made of calcium carbonate, a substance similar to limestone, marble, and chalk.(oceanservice.noaa.gov)
3. Foraminiferan is a widespread given name for members of the class Foraminifera, large, shelled amoeboid protozoan’s belonging to the “phylum Sarcodina”. Most foraminiferan shells are calcareous, but some are siliceous, and others are built of sand grains. At the beginning the shell contains a single chamber, and new chambers are added in a feature linear, spiral, or concentric sequence as the organism grows. Many shells reach several inches in diameter, but most species are less than a millimeter in long in diameter. Long, branching extensions of the cell (pseudopodia) reach from openings in the shell and fuse together to form a net in which plankton organisms are trapped. The net may cover an area 10 times the diameter of the shell, and crustaceans of 1 in. (2.5 cm) or more long may be caught by these much smaller protozoans// (Infoplease/scienceforaminifran.com)
Marine food chain
What is a food chain? a food chain is simply a community of organisms, what they eat and what eats them.It connects the consumer with the producer. A food chain shows and explains how organisms
consumes energy and nutrients, it begins with plant life and ends with animal-life.
All organisms in the deep ocean population are linked through what they eat and what eats them. A food chain is basically a pathway between the producer and several types of consumers. In a typical marine food chain, dinoflagellates exchange energy from sunlight into food through photosynthesis and store it in their tissues. Copepods feed on dinoflagellates and incorporate this energy into their own tissues. The energy is transferred to sunfish when they feed on copepods, to small sharks that feed on sunfish, and to large sharks that feed on small sharks.(kids.britannica.com)
The feeding relations in an ecosystem consist of many food chains interconnected into a network called the “food web” but in this case because its deep ocean its called the “marine food chain”.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HrIeZtIH6g
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HrIeZtIH6g
The MARINE food chain begins with phytoplankton, just as on earth we would begin with plants, phytoplankton are found close to the surface of the water there there is enough sunlight for photosynthesis to occur.
1.Phytoplankton are consumed by tiny floating animals such as, crabs, shrimps, worms, krill and copepads known as Zoo-plankton. Phytoplanktons are also identified as “microalgae”. They are in addition similar to terrestrial plants that contain chlorophyll and need the light of sun in order to survive. “Most phytoplankton are buoyant and float in the upper part of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates the water. Phytoplankton also requires inorganic nutrients such as nitrates, phosphates, and sulfur which they convert into proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.” (oceanservice.noaa.gov)
2. Zooplankton provide food for all tpyes of fish, big fishes eat smaller fishes and so on and the sharks, will consume the bigger fishes. Zooplanktons are divided into two group types. First there are those that spend their whole lives as small plankton and then there are those that float as plankton only in their young stages. Usually the second type will grow up into a variety of larger life forms. Forminiferans, radiolarians, and copepods are only some of the permanent members of the zooplankton community. The first two are nearly comparable to the diatoms and flagellates of the phytoplankton population. Forminiferans (hole-bearers) are organisms that live within small shells made of calcium carbonate, a substance similar to limestone, marble, and chalk.(oceanservice.noaa.gov)
3. Foraminiferan is a widespread given name for members of the class Foraminifera, large, shelled amoeboid protozoan’s belonging to the “phylum Sarcodina”. Most foraminiferan shells are calcareous, but some are siliceous, and others are built of sand grains. At the beginning the shell contains a single chamber, and new chambers are added in a feature linear, spiral, or concentric sequence as the organism grows. Many shells reach several inches in diameter, but most species are less than a millimeter in long in diameter. Long, branching extensions of the cell (pseudopodia) reach from openings in the shell and fuse together to form a net in which plankton organisms are trapped. The net may cover an area 10 times the diameter of the shell, and crustaceans of 1 in. (2.5 cm) or more long may be caught by these much smaller protozoans// (Infoplease/scienceforaminifran.com)
Citations:
1.(Infoplease/scienceforaminifran.com)2.(oceanservice.noaa.gov)
3.(kids.britannica.com)
BY:JOSE RAMOS